11/04/2016

Aligning Components - AutoCAD Electrical

A few days ago I was talking with a customer who had created many LISP routines for performing the daily tasks encountered in the creation of electrical schematics. While looking over their scripts, I kept finding unnecessary custom scripts because the tasks they were trying to automate have been inside of AutoCAD Electrical for years. They simply were unaware of these commands. In this post I’ll look as one of those commands. The Align command.

It's available from the Schematic tab under the Scoot command.

And more importantly, it is on the right click menu when right clicking over a component or wire number.

When right clicking on an object, that object becomes the master. Simply select, or window, all objects to be aligned to that first master object. Be careful when windowing components. All components on a wire will be stacked on top of each other including non-Electrical components.

Once all components are selected, press enter to continue, and the Align tool will finish by aligning all selected objects under the master object.